It’s a trophy acqui-hire. Something to brag about over dinner and to investors.

so Altman's nerd-equivalent of a sexual conquest?

This v2 Sorkin movie is way overdue.

"The Social Network" (2010) seems so innocent now.

Narcissistic ego stroking. He literally is invoking and thinking out loud for a dead man, who was not that intimate with him, just to validate his own ventures and acquihires. Very weird.

It wouldn't be that weird if Ive had said so himself.

> It wouldn't be that weird if Ive had said so himself.

It would still be marketing, though.

Sure, but at least it would've been tethered to someone who actually knew him. Remove that and any humanity in the quote banishes.

… Unless he engineered the entire deal himself and wanted to make it seem like it was Ive’s greatest maneuver.

If Ive has the social intelligence of a child, I guess that's plausible.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And Ive and Sama were the sixth day.

I'm certainly not saying that "nobody is even allowed to assume how he would have thought". What I'm saying actually has very little to do with Jobs at all.

I'm saying that as a new partner to someone, it's extremely weird to say that your old dead partner would be extremely proud you teamed up with me. If I were to marry a woman who lost her husband, it would be extremely weird and egotistical for me to tell people that her dead ex-husband would be "damn proud" that she married me.

> If I were to marry a woman who lost her husband, it would be extremely weird and egotistical for me to tell people that her dead ex-husband would be "damn proud" that she married me.

Perfect example. That is exactly what it feels like. What a nasty thing for him to even think, and he goes and says it publicly.

If Ive had said that himself, it wouldn't be weird. But Sama didn't know Jobs well enough to put words in his mouth.